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EXACTLY WHO CAN BE PROVEN NEGLIGENT IN A SCHOOL BUS ACCIDENT?
On average, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported, about 134 people die in school-vehicle-related crashes each year. Of those, 8% are riding in the buses. 21% are pedestrians, bicyclists and others outside the bus. 71% are people in other vehicles. Once a bus begins rolling down the road, a child is, statistically speaking, safer… Read More »
HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS – KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
It may not qualify as a soothing bedtime story, but the book The Biggest Legal Mistakes Physicians Make: And How to Avoid Them should be on the reading list of every healthcare practitioner. Although author Steven Babitsky is advising doctors, I can tell you his advice to “take proactive steps to minimize the effect… Read More »
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES MAY BE INVISIBLE, YET LIFE – ALTERING
Sometimes, when there’s a hard blow or jolt to the head, the skull remains intact, and the extent of the injury is invisible from the outside. In fact, one of the most common forms of closed-head injury is concussion. There may be no noticeable scars, bruises, or bleeding, but what has happened inside… Read More »
DISTRACTED DRIVING CAN CAUSE CATASTROPHIC PERSONAL INJURY
As a personal injury attorney dealing in auto accident cases for more than forty years, I can share with you an extremely disturbing truth: While catastrophic and permanent loss may result from equipment error, all too often the real cause is – distracted driving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration defines distraction as anything… Read More »
ARE YOUR LOVED ONES RECEIVING THE APPROPRIATE STANDARD OF CARE?
A highly disturbing 2018 end-of-year headline reports that home healthcare nurses failed to intervene or call for help when their patient’s condition was worsening. Then, after the patient died, the providers allowed the body to remain in the home for nearly two days without telling anyone! Just months earlier, due to negligence at a… Read More »
THE BIGGEST THREAT OF PERSONAL INJURY TO KIDS ISN’T ASSAULT WEAPONS
“According to scientific literature, American children face a substantial risk of exposure to firearm injury and death,” a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute report points out, citing the following three statistics as part of a long list: There are approximately 120 guns in circulation in the U.S. for every 100 people. 1 out… Read More »
TRUCKING ACCIDENTS CONTINUE TO PILE UP – AND THERE ARE REASONS
There’s a reason trucking accidents happen. In fact, there are five reasons: driver error poor vehicle maintenance equipment failure weather improper cargo loading Trucks colliding with passenger cars can lead to catastrophic injuries and death – usually to the occupants of the car. With the typical passenger vehicle weighing around 4,000 pounds, an 18-wheeler… Read More »
SLIP AND FALL ACCIDENTS CAN TURN CELEBRATIONS INTO CATASROPHES
Until it happens to someone we love, we don’t think about slipping in a store as a cause of serious body injury. We don’t mean to be Grinch-like in our messages to readers, but as Indiana personal injury attorneys, we want to inject a note of caution in our holiday wishes. The Centers for… Read More »
SEXUAL VIOLENCE VICTIMS NEED AFFIRMATION AND FINANCIAL HELP
“Adolescent sexual violence is far too common in the State of Indiana. The best available data indicates that Indiana has the second highest rate of forced sexual intercourse among high school females in the nation,” begins a report based on data from a study funded by the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute. One factor that… Read More »
MUNICIPALITIES OWE A DUTY TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT BY POLICE
In the Indiana Court of Appeals two cases, involving two different women, in two different cities, were combined. Each woman had been sexually assaulted by a police officer, one in Evansville, the other in Ft. Wayne. Now the combined case was being reviewed by the Indiana Supreme Court…. The legal issue at stake: Does… Read More »
